Sooner or later it was bound to happen. As companies become bigger and bigger they break away from national barriers and are able to take advantage of cheaper, skilled labor from overseas.
Since asia now holds its own in terms of education and technical ability, I believe we are beginning to see some sweeping changes that will more or less bring more homogenity to wages and living expenses the world over.
Using In-Place technology is cheaper.
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Old technology already has the infrastructure in-place. 150Mbps over copper is significantly less expensive than having to lay down new fiber line to each house.
Give some sort of a bundle, like free subscription to club strip. Nothing will get those 3G phones rolling like the idea of having pr0n (sorta) on the go!
Look at the phones now... it's not that phones are getting the advantage over PDAs, it's that the distinction between a phone and a PDA is slowly disappearing.
I've had the chance to play with some of the new offerings from Sony-Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung and honestly they are barely different from a small Palm.
3DFX destroyed themselves.. Basically turned from a technologically innovative company to "16 bit is enough for everyone." IMO 3dFX shot itself in the foot with the voodoo3, and then in the head after management/marketing had the gall to insist they knew what the public wanted better than the public itself.
MHz = operational speed, aka RPM. Not CC Since Intel's P4 is does less work per cycle, it's like a small displacement engine working at high rpm. AMD's Barton is like a large engine working at lazier, lower revs.
Perhaps with IP addresses being allocated to far remote locations the government will allocate more funding to quantum research?
Traditional methods of broadcast certainly won't be very useful over distances where light will take minutes to travel. Unless we make rapid advances and make quantum teleportation of electronic data possible, the email of today may become the snailmail of future generations.
That really depends on what kind of work you do. At home where all I do is code and surf the internet, my current P3-700 is chugging along nice and fine.
However I have another rig I use for video encoding, usually mastering old VHS and V8 tapes to DivX or DVD and in that setup I need all the speed I can get.
Would be translation sites. Sure they normally end up with funny renditions of the original text, but at the very least they allow me to browse sites I otherwise wouldn't have a clue about. Nicely done with perl's robust string handlers.
"If time doesn't become 'fuzzy' beneath a Planck interval, this discovery will present problems to several astrophysical and cosmological models, including the Big Bang model of the universe,"
Hubble HAS to be wrong! Or we'll have to re-work them quantum physics theories over!
I dunno about you, but this smells a bit of blaming the data when the hypothesis doesn't hold up, back during the days of high-school science lab classes.
What would machines do if they did achieve sentience?
I suppose they would still function as normal, but strive to have others recognize their sentience ala Ghost in The Shell.
Japan's sat is all over the news...
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On news today featuring Japan's new spy sattelite, the reporter disclosed that it could detect object and their placement/dimension down to the meter. They also acknowledged that this was inferior to american technology.
Ok, how many PCs have you seen konk themselves out on their own? I've seen quite a few.
Now, how many refrigerators have you seen that suddenly died without intervention? Zero on this side.
Perhaps if whirlpool (or some other well-known fridge maker) made their own PC refrigerator you would like it? (screw the name "vapor-phase," it's the same thing and might open up royalty issues)
Because the traditional designations are spotty at best, and certainly not definitive enough.
Currently, a planet is defined to be a body larger than an asteroid and orbiting a star. There's no distinction between planet and asteroid, except "oh that looks big enough.. i guess it's a planet."
The shuttle is over 20 years old. There's something seriously wrong with that. I've always imagined NASA should be on the very cutting edge of technology, a pioneer among pioneers... Sadly, it isn't that even on its own field. Commercial aircraft manufacturers are operating with designs far more advanced when the shuttle is still working with 8086 era equipment.
Concentrations may vary, but the BBC has reported this during their last season of top gear. They also have a writeup on their site.
Perhaps the biggest advantage is that in most countries biodiesel is relatively untaxed, or taxed much less than regular fuel. I think it's a great way to maximize use of your old cooking oil.
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Sooner or later it was bound to happen. As companies become bigger and bigger they break away from national barriers and are able to take advantage of cheaper, skilled labor from overseas.
Since asia now holds its own in terms of education and technical ability, I believe we are beginning to see some sweeping changes that will more or less bring more homogenity to wages and living expenses the world over.
Old technology already has the infrastructure in-place. 150Mbps over copper is significantly less expensive than having to lay down new fiber line to each house.
When the new processor's FSB is higher than your rig's CPU clock =(
Give some sort of a bundle, like free subscription to club strip. Nothing will get those 3G phones rolling like the idea of having pr0n (sorta) on the go!
Look at the phones now... it's not that phones are getting the advantage over PDAs, it's that the distinction between a phone and a PDA is slowly disappearing.
I've had the chance to play with some of the new offerings from Sony-Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung and honestly they are barely different from a small Palm.
3DFX destroyed themselves.. Basically turned from a technologically innovative company to "16 bit is enough for everyone." IMO 3dFX shot itself in the foot with the voodoo3, and then in the head after management/marketing had the gall to insist they knew what the public wanted better than the public itself.
...at least get it right!
MHz = operational speed, aka RPM. Not CC
Since Intel's P4 is does less work per cycle, it's like a small displacement engine working at high rpm. AMD's Barton is like a large engine working at lazier, lower revs.
Where I live, you can sell off stuff like paper and recyclable junk. We actually make money off bulk mail and old magazines =)
Remember Windows 3.0 GPFs? The ones where it says the system is basically screwed, you lost your work and force you to click "OK?"
I bet that set the bar for antisocial software.
I propose the "Hampster Dance" song.
I suggest the "Barney" theme.
Perhaps with IP addresses being allocated to far remote locations the government will allocate more funding to quantum research?
Traditional methods of broadcast certainly won't be very useful over distances where light will take minutes to travel. Unless we make rapid advances and make quantum teleportation of electronic data possible, the email of today may become the snailmail of future generations.
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I think I'm starting to get the hang of expecting reposts...
That really depends on what kind of work you do. At home where all I do is code and surf the internet, my current P3-700 is chugging along nice and fine.
However I have another rig I use for video encoding, usually mastering old VHS and V8 tapes to DivX or DVD and in that setup I need all the speed I can get.
I'm not entirely sure how rinkworks operates, but fact is an application like the dialectizer would be a good case for using perl.
Would be translation sites. Sure they normally end up with funny renditions of the original text, but at the very least they allow me to browse sites I otherwise wouldn't have a clue about. Nicely done with perl's robust string handlers.
Another very fun application is rinkwork's dialectizer
Shock and Awe!
Each Laser rifle will be shipped with a Baseball Bat(tm) as a backup device. =)
"If time doesn't become 'fuzzy' beneath a Planck interval, this discovery will present problems to several astrophysical and cosmological models, including the Big Bang model of the universe,"
Hubble HAS to be wrong! Or we'll have to re-work them quantum physics theories over!
I dunno about you, but this smells a bit of blaming the data when the hypothesis doesn't hold up, back during the days of high-school science lab classes.
Luckily Norway didn't invent the DMCA.
What would machines do if they did achieve sentience?
I suppose they would still function as normal, but strive to have others recognize their sentience ala Ghost in The Shell.
On news today featuring Japan's new spy sattelite, the reporter disclosed that it could detect object and their placement/dimension down to the meter. They also acknowledged that this was inferior to american technology.
Tanks yes then. People maybe?
Ok, how many PCs have you seen konk themselves out on their own? I've seen quite a few.
Now, how many refrigerators have you seen that suddenly died without intervention? Zero on this side.
Perhaps if whirlpool (or some other well-known fridge maker) made their own PC refrigerator you would like it? (screw the name "vapor-phase," it's the same thing and might open up royalty issues)
Because the traditional designations are spotty at best, and certainly not definitive enough.
Currently, a planet is defined to be a body larger than an asteroid and orbiting a star. There's no distinction between planet and asteroid, except "oh that looks big enough.. i guess it's a planet."
The shuttle is over 20 years old. There's something seriously wrong with that. I've always imagined NASA should be on the very cutting edge of technology, a pioneer among pioneers... Sadly, it isn't that even on its own field. Commercial aircraft manufacturers are operating with designs far more advanced when the shuttle is still working with 8086 era equipment.
Biodiesel for the lazy:
70% Vegetable Oil + 30% Kerosene
Concentrations may vary, but the BBC has reported this during their last season of top gear. They also have a writeup on their site.
Perhaps the biggest advantage is that in most countries biodiesel is relatively untaxed, or taxed much less than regular fuel. I think it's a great way to maximize use of your old cooking oil.